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By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. government this week is holding its first onshore oil and natural gas drilling…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. government this week is holding its first onshore oil and natural gas drilling…
Continue ReadingYELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A Colorado man who Yellowstone National Park officials say got too close to a bison was thrown by the animal…
Continue ReadingMEETEETSE, Wyo. (AP) — A hiker has been hospitalized after being mauled by a bear, believed to have been a grizzly, in the mountains of…
Continue ReadingBy FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A bison herd that lives almost exclusively in the northern reaches of Grand Canyon…
Continue ReadingHELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte is making up to $5 million in grant funding from Montana’s bed tax fund available to…
Continue ReadingWAPITI, Wyo. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park partially reopens 9 days after flooding forced 10,000 to evacuate and wiped out roads,…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK (AP) — Throngs of tourists gleefully watched the legendary Old…
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Firefighter groups are applauding the Biden administration’s steps to raise pay but warn…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press GARDINER, Mont. (AP) — Most of Yellowstone National Park should reopen within the next two…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press FROMBERG, Mont. (AP) — With Yellowstone National Park pushing to reopen to tourists more…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press The price of a foot of water pipe in Tucson, Arizona: up 19%. The cost of a ton of asphalt in a…
Continue ReadingBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park will partially reopen at 8 a.m. Wednesday, after catastrophic flooding destroyed bridges and roads…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press Created in 1872 as the United States was recovering from the Civil War, Yellowstone was the…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press RED LODGE, Mont. (AP) — As punishing floods tore through Yellowstone National Park and…
Continue ReadingOROFINO, Idaho (AP) — Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Thursday announced $9 million for 40 projects in Idaho and seven other Western states for…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press RED LODGE, Mont. (AP) — This gateway town to Yellowstone National Park has become a dead end, a…
Continue ReadingBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI and CHEYANNE MUMPHREY Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Recognition of Juneteenth, the effective end of slavery in the…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Devastating floodwaters that wiped out miles of roads and hundreds…
Continue ReadingRED LODGE, Mont. (AP) — Yellowstone official says park has evacuated all visitors except a small group of backpackers following massive…
Continue ReadingGREELEY, Colo. (AP) — Five people from Wyoming, including an infant girl, are dead after the SUV they were in was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press RED LODGE, Mont. (AP) — More than 10,000 visitors were ordered out of Yellowstone as…
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Massive floodwaters ravaged Yellowstone National Park and nearby communities Monday,…
Continue ReadingGRESHAM, Ore. (AP) — Federal law enforcement is investigating a fire that broke out on Friday morning at an anti-abortion center in a suburb east…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST and SAM METZ Associated Press After the arrest of more than two dozen members of a white supremacist group near a northern…
Continue ReadingBy MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press Authorities arrested 31 members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front near an Idaho pride event Saturday…
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Los Angeles Dodgers player Steve Sax has issued a statement saying that his 33-year-old son who had always dreamed of…
Continue ReadingCHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Hog Park Reservoir is expected to be 100% full soon, the Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities predicted Friday. Among the six…
Continue ReadingMARINE CORPS AIR STATION MIRAMAR, Calif. (AP) — The U.S. Marine Corps on Friday identified five people who died when their Osprey tiltrotor…
Continue ReadingYELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A government panel has renamed a Yellowstone National Park mountain that had been named for a U.S. Army…
Continue ReadingJACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — A woman accused of intentionally providing wrong information in the search for a missing Irish hiker in Grand Teton National…
Continue ReadingCHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A masked woman in a hooded shirt set a fire at a planned abortion clinic in Wyoming, according to newly released police…
Continue ReadingBy FARNOUSH AMIRI and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The nine members of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S.…
Continue ReadingBy MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Most every Republican lawmaker expressed outrage in the days after the insurrection at…
Continue ReadingBy LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Liz Cheney has been thinking lately about her great-great-grandfather, a man…
Continue ReadingBy FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Wide-ranging bipartisan legislation unveiled Tuesday would regulate cryptocurrencies and other…
Continue ReadingBONNER, Mont. (AP) — Montana wildlife officials captured two young female sibling grizzly bears, releasing one back into the wild and euthanizing…
Continue ReadingHELENA, Mont. (AP) — A wildlife agency that lost key court rulings over its denial of petitions to protect Yellowstone National Park bison will…
Continue ReadingBy LISA RATHKE Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A Colorado man pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court in Vermont to kidnapping a man…
Continue ReadingYELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A bison gored a 25-year-old woman in Yellowstone National Park. The bison was walking near a boardwalk at…
Continue ReadingCHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A man wanted in a fatal shooting in Nebraska was shot and killed by police in Wyoming on Saturday, the Cheyenne Police…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — When organizers earlier this year settled on a summer opening for a new women’s health…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge has given U.S. wildlife officials 18 months to decide if wolverines should…
Continue ReadingCHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — U.S. land managers Thursday said they’ve given final permission for a 416-mile transmission line that would connect…
Continue ReadingCHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney said Wednesday that she had tested positive for COVID-19 and planned to work through minor symptoms she…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — An abortion clinic set to open next month in conservative Wyoming was damaged in a fire early…
Continue ReadingBy SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press As drought and climate change tighten their grip on the American West, the sight of fountains, swimming pools,…
Continue ReadingBy PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press LEEDS, Maine (AP) — The ripple effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have been devastating for families of…
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Republicans are coming out swinging against Wall Street’s growing efforts to consider…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — President Joe Biden’s order to protect the nation’s oldest…
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — U.S. government lawyers on Wednesday asked the appeals court overseeing four western and two…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled the Trump administration acted illegally in 2020 when it withdrew an…
Continue ReadingBy TOM KRISHER and HOPE YEN Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Nearly 43,000 people were killed on U.S. roads last year, the highest number in 16…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis apologized Monday after getting booed and heckled for remarks she…
Continue ReadingBy MORGAN LEE and MEAD GRUVER Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Government budgets are booming in New Mexico: Teacher salaries are up,…
Continue ReadingThe Associated Press The 2021-2022 ski season was record-breaking in the total number of skier visits to resorts around the country, the National Ski…
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN SLODYSKO and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Erin Houchin braced for the worst when a mysterious group started buying…
Continue ReadingBy BRIAN SLODYSKO and FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Erin Houchin braced for the worst when a mysterious, well-financed group…
Continue ReadingBy JANET McCONNAUGHEY Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — President Joe Biden legally called for suspending new and gas lease sales while…
Continue ReadingLIBBY, Mont. (AP) — An experienced kayaker from Victor, Idaho, died in a kayaking accident in the Yaak River in northwestern Montana over the…
Continue ReadingCASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit over online harassment filed against actor Alec Baldwin by the family of a…
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — U.S. officials announced what they called extraordinary steps on Tuesday to keep hundreds of…
Continue ReadingLAS VEGAS (AP) — A massive drought-starved reservoir on the Colorado River has become so depleted that Las Vegas now is pumping water from deeper…
Continue ReadingBy ARNIE STAPLETON AP Pro Football Writer Former University of Wyoming star linebacker Chad Muma was 13 years old when he was diagnosed as diabetic.…
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Collecting piñon nuts has been tradition for Native American and Hispanic…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. wildlife officials have agreed to craft a new habitat plan for the snow-loving Canada…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — As climate change bakes the planet, dozens of nations including the U.S. and many local…
Continue ReadingRAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Heavy snow and strong gusty winds will whip up blizzard conditions for parts of several states this weekend, including the…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Ideas for reducing greenhouse gas in the atmosphere are getting a funding boost from famed…
Continue ReadingBRIDGER, Mont. (AP) — An employee and a customer died in a casino fire in a small town in south-central Montana. Carbon County Sheriff Josh…
Continue ReadingBOSTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is among five people being named as recipients of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — Two Idaho men have been sentenced to jail time and banned from hunting for years after pleading guilty to poaching a grizzly…
Continue ReadingBy BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press TWIN BRIDGES, Calif. (AP) — As wildfires intensify across the West, researchers are studying how scorched…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The growth of Oregon’s wolf population slowed significantly last year because 21 animals were killed by human poaching,…
Continue ReadingBy WILSON RING Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A Las Vegas man has pleaded not guilty to a federal kidnapping charge in the 2018 abduction…
Continue ReadingBOWMAN, N.D. (AP) — State and energy officials have held a ceremony to mark completion of a carbon dioxide pipeline used to help recover more crude…
Continue ReadingBy JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona remains on track, at least for now, to use the death penalty for the first time in…
Continue ReadingGILROY, Calif. (AP) — A victim of the serial murderer dubbed the Happy Face Killer has been identified nearly 30 years after her body was left near…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Interior Department is moving forward with the first onshore sales of public oil and…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — A highly contagious form of avian influenza has been found in two Idaho chicken flocks, prompting state agriculture officials…
Continue ReadingBOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Forty-nine Yellowstone National Park bison were shipped to slaughter, killed by hunters or captured for relocation this…
Continue ReadingBy SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Month by month, more of the roughly 40 million Americans who get help buying groceries…
Continue ReadingBy KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An effort by President Joe Biden’s administration to account for potential damage from…
Continue ReadingBy FELICIA FONSECA Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Federal officials say it may be necessary to reduce water deliveries to Colorado River…
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ Associated Press Congresswoman Liz Cheney’s campaign says the third-term Wyoming Republican has raised almost $3 million in…
Continue ReadingCHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia’s U.S. senators are among a dozen asking President Joe Biden to consult with officials state by state on…
Continue ReadingBy WILSON RING Associated Press A Colorado man has been charged with kidnapping a Vermont man whose body was found in a snowbank by the side of a…
Continue ReadingBy PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer Three-time Olympian Resi Stiegler will make a comeback to the ski racing scene this weekend at the World Pro Ski Tour…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A subsidiary of one of the largest U.S. wind energy companies has been sentenced to…
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press Alec Baldwin is asking a federal judge to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by a Wyoming woman who said she…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal appeals court says U.S. officials improperly downplayed the climate change…
Continue ReadingBUFFALO, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon is seeking re-election. Gordon, a Republican, made the announcement Monday in Buffalo. Gordon’s…
Continue ReadingMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — State patrol officials say a man convicted of killing his wife in Minnesota in 1999 has died following a law enforcement pursuit…
Continue ReadingBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — NorthWestern Energy is reducing the amount of water it releases from Hebgen Dam into the Madison River for nearly three…
Continue ReadingBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — As Yellowstone National Park celebrates its 150th anniversary year, the park’s fundraising arm is seeking $1,500…
Continue ReadingCHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A Laramie County sheriff’s deputy is expected to recover from a gunshot wound he sustained in an exchange of fire with a…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press A debate is playing out across the country as the Treasury Department begins reallocating some of the $46.5 billion…
Continue ReadingJACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Strong criticism has led Grand Teton National Park to reverse its plan to require portrait photographers to have a permit to…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. officials have approved a conservation group’s proposal to expand bison grazing on…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana authorities are not trying to track down a grizzly bear suspected in the fatal…
Continue ReadingHARRISON, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say two women were killed and three children were seriously hurt in a western Nebraska crash involving livestock…
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